The Hospitaller Grand Priory of Messina in the Seventeenth Century

Ray Gatt has a professional medical background and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Malta. His thesis on the Grand Hospitaller Priory of Messina became the foundation for the current book with the same title. He has also written various papers on the Hospitallers which have been included in edited books, as well as on another Hospitaller Order, that of St Lazarus.

Chapter 1

Introduction and Historiography

Chapter 2

The Hospitaller European Commandery

Chapter 3

The Hospitaller Sicilian Patrimony

Chapter 4

Management of the Sicilian Commandery in the Seventeenth Century

Chapter 5

The State of the Priory of Messina in the Seventeenth Century

Chapter 6

The Sicilian Hospitaller Priory - the Religious Cult

Chapter 7

The Hospitaller Prioral Mansion in Messina

Chapter 8

The Insurrection of Messina of 1674 and the Hospitaller Grand Priory

Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendix A

An Outline of the Grand Priory of Messina in the Seventeenth Century

Appendix B

Lingua d’Italia Tomo 1

Appendix C

The Church of the Hospitallers’ San Giovanni Battista in Messina, 1604 - 1749.